Greg Salmieri
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1,054 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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But um
regardless of who the primary caretaker is, there's a lot now with these books about don't, you know, take care of yourself.
Your kid's not gonna be better off and no one's gonna be better off if you're making a martyr to yourself for to be what you imagine is the perfect parent.
The perfect parent isn't a some kind of put upon slave.
Um I don't think we think people should never care for themselves.
But I do think people think the idea that
it's always moral to do what's best for yourself.
That I think is strikes people as very counterintuitive.
And well why is that?
Well I think there are two reasons.
I think the the content of conventional morality that we're brought up with
Surprises non-selfish, non-egoistic, sacrificial actions.
They're given a kind of special moral weight or halo around them.
I think that's why there's a need for this kind of advice as part of feminism, as part of parental training, and part of other things.
You know, care for yourself.
It's a kind of pushback against something that's big in the culture, and we can talk about why that is.
But there's a sense of like this is what's more.
Morality.
And I think a lot of things that are thought to be moral that are sacrificial are not moral.
But then there's also a lot of things that I think genuinely are moral are demanding, require a lot of work, require struggle, require doing things that might not be what you feel like doing in the moment.
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